With well over 40% for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Saxony-Anhalt has witnessed a landmark election night. DW's reporters were on the ground.
the fascists likely didn’t get a super majority, but might be in that state’s government as major coalition partner anyway.
long term: political disorder within germany’s inter-state federal politics, possible political firewall (“Brandmauer”) against an entire federal state, possible conflict with NATO over logistics, Germany “being busy with itself” etc…
Normalization: go out and do protests, interviews, etc. People hate your ideas still, but you just keep saying them until they’re normal.
Mainstream: established parties get scared, start talking the radical positions to get voters back, thereby proving that the positions are actually fine! So why vote for the cheap copy then, if you can have the original?
Power: win elections, start dismantling some Democratic institutions.
Gleichschaltung: take over total power via manufactured coup etc. Then dismantle anything that’s left.
It literally explained all of that in the article.
I don’t understand what sucked about the website, found it perfectly usable myself. I did reject all cookies when it asked though, so maybe that helped.
Cookies are considered ‘personal data’ under GDPR and ePrivacy directive of the EU, requiring informed user consent for any non-essential cookie - what is non-essential is highly debated, which is why essentially any significant website in the EU errs on the side of caution and uses a cookie popup.
Name any EU news website that doesn’t use cookies in some form and have a cookie popup, I’ll consider my statement inaccurate.
It’s actually quite easy. If cookies are needed for the technical function of a service, they are justified. I don’t see how a website serving news articles would need to preserve state via cookies in order to function properly.
And no, doing “visitor statistics” is no valid reason nor an essential function.
The websites that do so liberally dump their entire cookie jar on their users, and spam them with this annoyance, are doing so, because they have ulterior motives, like collecting and selling user data to advertisers.
i don’t have an example but one of the the privacy blogs i watch had numerous examples of even eu websites that were in violation and there being no consequences (i think it was ben jordan)
mostly it was around the pop up not properly following the requirement but in some cases there just wasn’t one
now this was older so maybe they’ve since fixed themselves but this was after like a year or two of the requirement going into enactment so it wasnt an accident they were not in compliance
tldr that website sucks
what’s the result and the long term implications?
the fascists likely didn’t get a super majority, but might be in that state’s government as major coalition partner anyway.
long term: political disorder within germany’s inter-state federal politics, possible political firewall (“Brandmauer”) against an entire federal state, possible conflict with NATO over logistics, Germany “being busy with itself” etc…
so more chaos then
which is fascism stage 1 :(
Actually it’s stage 3/4 of 5.
sorry i was being flippant, thank you for the actual list
No, many people don’t know, I just try to post it everywhere
yep awareness is important
Didn’t their main candidate rule out doing any coalition to build a government, i.e. government only if the AfD has the absolute majority?
It literally explained all of that in the article.
I don’t understand what sucked about the website, found it perfectly usable myself. I did reject all cookies when it asked though, so maybe that helped.
the immediate WE WANT YOUR DATA for one
You mean the legally-mandated GDPR cookie notice? That have existed for over a decade?
Have you visited the internet before yesterday?
lmao being told they are fucking you doesn’t make it good, and i wonder why they were legally forced to do so…
i have all that shit blocked on pc so no that part of the internet doest interact with me outside of my phone and lemmy
The cookie notice isn’t legally mandated. It is legally mandated to ask users before collecting Data you don’t actually need.
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Cookies are considered ‘personal data’ under GDPR and ePrivacy directive of the EU, requiring informed user consent for any non-essential cookie - what is non-essential is highly debated, which is why essentially any significant website in the EU errs on the side of caution and uses a cookie popup.
Name any EU news website that doesn’t use cookies in some form and have a cookie popup, I’ll consider my statement inaccurate.
It’s actually quite easy. If cookies are needed for the technical function of a service, they are justified. I don’t see how a website serving news articles would need to preserve state via cookies in order to function properly.
And no, doing “visitor statistics” is no valid reason nor an essential function.
The websites that do so liberally dump their entire cookie jar on their users, and spam them with this annoyance, are doing so, because they have ulterior motives, like collecting and selling user data to advertisers.
i don’t have an example but one of the the privacy blogs i watch had numerous examples of even eu websites that were in violation and there being no consequences (i think it was ben jordan)
mostly it was around the pop up not properly following the requirement but in some cases there just wasn’t one
now this was older so maybe they’ve since fixed themselves but this was after like a year or two of the requirement going into enactment so it wasnt an accident they were not in compliance